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The flight of Myanmar's Rohingya to Bangladesh should have come as no surprise to the United Nations.

For more than three years, a chorus of voices from within the U.N. community have warned that the country's minority Muslims faced a grim reckoning that the U.N. was ill prepared to handle and called for pressing the government of Myanmar, which is often referred to as Burma, to halt its abuses.

"It has always been a question of when rather than if," said Charles Petrie, a former U.N. representative in Myanmar, who has emerged as one the institution's most prominent critics.

But at every step of the way these critics have faced fierce resistance from some of...

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